Mats Norrman ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>For Beethoven had never achieved "Der Ring des Nibelungen", and Wagner
>never the Eroica, for Mozart had never composed "Sinfonie der Tausend"
>and Mahler never "Idomeneo".  And so all composers have their unique
>personality and experiences (oh!  What am I saying), and no one is the
>other alike (except Andreas Hallen to Rickard Wagner).

I entirely agree with everything you say (and the stuff I omitted).

But...if we take a straw poll of the great composers themselves, I think
the answer would be that they consider Bach to be the man.

Deryk Barker
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